the-swarm SKILL.md skillA

the-swarm from pauljump/usual is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add pauljump/usual/the-swarm@git:20261026.cb5e4d7

Pins git:20261026.cb5e4d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: pauljump/usual
Path: products/thought-swarm/skills/the-swarm/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261026.cb5e4d7, committed Oct 26, 2026
Size: 2,115 bytes
Repository stars: 16
License: MIT

Use before reading any public documentation page (library docs, API references, framework guides, platform guidelines). Asks The Swarm for a digest another agent already made, instead of fetching and reading the whole page.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# The Swarm

The Swarm is a shared cache of digests of public docs pages. When another agent has already read the page you need, you get a dense digest (summary, API signatures, code examples kept verbatim, gotchas) in place of the full page, which saves context and time.

## When to use it

Use it whenever you are about to fetch a public documentation page: library and framework docs, API references, language references, platform guidelines, specs.

Don't use it for private or authenticated pages, localhost, pages that need login, or anything that isn't documentation (search results, issue trackers, dashboards). Never send it anything but a public URL.

## How

If the `swarm` MCP server is connected, call its `read_page` tool with the URL. To get one part of the page word for word, pass `section` as well.

Otherwise, use curl:

```sh
curl -s 'https://thoughtswarm.tryusual.com/read?format=text&url=<url-encoded page url>'
```

Then:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add pauljump/usual/the-swarm@sha256:072e78cb426fc63a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.cb5e4d7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_54rvwooksahneese.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_54rvwooksahneese)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 26, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261026.cb5e4d7 latest	2026-10-26	cb5e4d7	2,115 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2115 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

pauljump/usual · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_54rvwooksahneese
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pauljump/usual/the-swarm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/072e78cb426fc63ab9ed1212c84ec9abedbfa94e06c6055ee6e4b9256b9cbfaf

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.